Ernest Blythe
, the new managing director of the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, rejected TD
's latest play, Wife to James Whelan.
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/.
Reception
Teresa Deevy
Deevy told Hackett that Blythe
's rejection of Wife to James Whelan was made in terms which showed he had no use for her work: it may be a good thing to be finished with...
